Playing twenty questions with nature (the surprise version): Reflections on the dynamics of experience

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-154

  Flach, John M ^a   Dekker, Sidney ^b   Stappers, Pieter Jan ^c  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive systems engineering; Hindsight; Human error; Learning; Memory; Ontology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010510156     PISSN: 1463922X     EISSN: 1464536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639220601095353     Document Type: Article

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